Civil service fast stream 2014/2015

I can understand why you might want to avoid that for personal reasons but you're under no obligation to give notice just because you ask for a reference. I was an in-service candidate so my managers were aware of the process all the way through and that I would be giving formal notice as early as I could.

We could make a HR Facebook page?!

Excellent idea! :-)

Great. I'll go ahead and make it and post up the details for everyone.

Looks like I need to add a facebook friend to the group before I can publish it - do you want to message me your FB so I can add you there?

Thanks!

The easiest thing might be to set up a secret group on fb then send the link to each of us via private message on here

I have no hope for the fast stream if I can't make a Facebook group, lol. You can't make a secret group and send links so have gone for a private one for now. Looks like previous cohorts did the same as they have groups on there too. Anyway, HR people who want to get to know each other a bit better I've set up a private Facebook group under 'HR Fast Stream 2015' ... get adding !https://www.facebook.com/groups/1492178581068261/?fref=ts

I'm also an in-service candidate. I recently found out I passed the FSAC for central departments. My line manager is aware I applied and now that I have passed. When would you say it is safe to give formal notice? Once the pre-employment checks are done? I am keen to do it as soon as possible to give me a few weeks between jobs to relocate back to the UK!

I'm also an in-service candidate. I recently found out I passed the FSAC for central departments. My line manager is aware I applied and now that I have passed. When would you say it is safe to give formal notice? Once the pre-employment checks are done? I am keen to do it as soon as possible to give me a few weeks between jobs to relocate back to the UK!

I am an in-service candidate too, found out that I had passed the FSAC on thursday for the central departments, and am in a similar position where my line manager knows that I have applied. Actually excited to tell him that I passed on monday (on easter leave). I have spoken to parity, and they told me that due to the fact I am already a civil servant, I can just get HR to inform them that all my pre-employment checks have already been completed, it may be a similar situation for you!
I've been under the impression that it is just an internal transfer therefore notice periods are different.
Hope that helps!

Hello,

I have been sneakily watching this thread all through the application process but have never posted or had an account before! I found out yesterday that I passed FSAC for the European Fast Stream. Have had a little bit of a trawl through - but very little to go by on what this means or how long I can expect it to be before I hear any more.

My scores were relatively high other than the wrong side of 2.5 for value-for-money/achieving commercial outcomes. I don't suppose anyone can enlighten me on a) chances of success at this stage or b) how long the 'paper sift' process takes? From a glance through last year's thread it looks as though some serious mistakes were made with communicating but also the whole process seemed to have been wrapped up by now...

Many thanks for any input from anybody, and congratulations to all of the many people on here who have been successful or reached final selection boards!

The paper sift took a good while last year, so if you've only just found out you passed FSAC I would prepare yourself to wait a little bit longer yet I'm afraid! The FSBs for the EFS Diplomatic option have to take place first and then the candidates for that selected so that the EFS team know who exactly is in the pool for them to select first. (I haven't been following the thread throughout so I don't know if these have happened or not)

They first sort by who has selected the EFS as their first choice. I believe people who have language degrees (French or German) are then chosen first, and then everyone else is ranked by their FSAC score. Then if there are any places left after that, they will apply the same criteria to people who didn't select the EFS as their first choice.

Hope this helps!

Thank so much for your help! I don't suppose you have any idea of how many people they let pass FSAC for EFS relative to the number of places available?

It varies since it depends on your etray score. If you got a high mark you'll be invited to FSAC quickly, usually within days. Middling marks have to wait a bit longer until it becomes clear where they stand in relation to others who've applied. I imagine that it'll be quicker for those applying in round 2 since the pass marks have already been set. But (like with every stage of this process!) you just have to wait.

If the pass marks have been set, op should find out within 24 hours. However, I'm not sure whether they will be reassessed for second round schemes? If so, like you say, the wait will apply.

Got the outcome in 24hrs as suspected and I passed! Now "awaiting invitation" to FSAC. Any ideas when the round 2 HR FSAC will be? Guessing sometime in May. Also, any tips on how to prepare for the FSAC, especially from the HR point of view?

I enjoyed telling my colleagues, although I detected in some an element of the usual range of emotions that some mainstream civil servants associate with the fast stream. I think that was slightly dampened by the fact that I have, like you, a chunk of experience inside the machine.